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Date Chocolate

Ground dates balls, stuffed with roasted nuts or roasted desiccated coconut and coated with melted white and dark chocolate. This is a Sanjeev Kapoor exclusive recipe.

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Date Chocolate

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Main Ingredients Dates, Dark Chocolate
Cuisine Fusion
Course Desserts
Prep Time 0-5 minutes
Cook time 41-50 minutes
Serve 4
Taste Sweet
Level of Cooking Easy
Others Veg

Ingredients list for Date Chocolate

  • 1 1/2 cups Dates coarsely ground roughly chopped
  • 1 cup Dark Chocolate chopped
  • 1/2 cup White chocolate chopped
  • 1/4 cup Almonds
  • 1/4 cup Cashewnuts
  • 1/4 cup Pistachios
  • 1/2 cup Desiccated coconut
  • 2 tablespoons Sugar
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Method

  1. Heat a non-stick pan and add the almonds, cashewnuts and pistachios and lightly toast them. Set aside to cool.
  2. Heat another non-stick pan and add desiccated coconut and sugar and roast lightly.
  3. Coarsely powder the toasted nuts. Reserve some ground nuts for decoration.
  4. Sprinkle a little water on desiccated coconut mixture and sauté till the mixture turns light brown.
  5. Divide the ground dates into sixteen equal portions. Flatten them and stuff some portions with ground nuts and some portions with desiccated coconut mixture. Shape some into balls and others into bars.
  6. Melt dark chocolate and white chocolate separately.
  7. Coat the date balls and bars with dark chocolate. Then coat them with white chocolate and nuts and place them on a tray lined with silicon sheet. Refrigerate for ten to fifteen minutes.
  8. Arrange on a serving plate and serve.

Nutrition Info

Calories 2081
Carbohydrates 178
Protein 37.9
Fat 135.2
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